By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News A proposed new northern Alberta provincial riding encompassing 18 Indigenous communities could help spur Indigenous participation in provincial politics, says the chief of Tallcree First Nation. The new riding, Mackenzie, was proposed in the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission’s (EBC) October 2025 interim report. With a proposed population of 39,072, it would be the province’s largest riding geographically but the smallest by population. The proposed boundaries were selected, according to the commission report, “with particular view to the desirability of an electoral division having a high Indigenous population.” Mackenzie would effectively replace the existing riding of Lesser Slave Lake, with the municipal district of Lesser Slave River, including the Town of Slave Lake, moved to a reconfigured Slave Lake-Westlock-Athabasca riding and…
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